The basis for that is Dutton’s claim that Albanese has refused to back US President Joe Biden in supporting Israel’s right to launch land incursions into Lebanon. He’s accusing Albanese of “walking away” from the US in “the most reckless foreign affairs decision in our generation”.

Peter Dutton has accused Anthony Albanese of trying to ‘speak out of both sides of his mouth’ on the Israel-Gaza conflict as the Coalition rejected his motion condemning Hamas’ October 7 attack.

A last-minute scramble to agree on a bipartisan motion to be put to parliament about October 7 failed as Peter Dutton and Anthony Albanese butted heads on its wording.